She’s tending flowers near the billboards one day when she looks up to see a deer on the edge of the forest. Letting down her guard for a moment, she addresses the deer, saying, “You ain’t tryin’ to make me believe in reincarnation or something, are ya? Because you’re pretty, but you ain’t her.”

The deer scene appears (in part) in this trailer:

But is that a real deer? Many on Twitter thought it was entirely computer-generated. However, real animals were brought in for the scene. Animal trainer Greg Tresan of Dogworks confirmed to Moviepaws: “We did use real deer.”

Deer from the West Carolina Nature Center were shot against a bluescreen backdrop, according to WLOS, The screen was up for a few days before filming began so the deer could get used to it.

Neither the trainer nor the publicist for the film would comment whether some of the live deer action was later touched up or enhanced with computer graphics (or whether McDormand and deer were ever in the same shot).